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By jquiggin | March 17, 2007
update The whole event is now documented at Flickr
Topics: Life in General |
« Today’s the day! | Home | Rip van Winkle »
By jquiggin | March 17, 2007
update The whole event is now documented at Flickr
Topics: Life in General |
"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"the odd Quiggan is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
March 17th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
John - there’s an impostor on your site!
March 17th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
How much do you want for letting it grow back?
March 17th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Good on you - I reckon you look ten years younger!
March 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Now for the inevitable EBay auction of the remnants of the beard.
March 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
scary
March 17th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
John?
March 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
It’s a good look, John. Like Megan says, it makes you look ten years younger. Keep it off!
Of course, for next year’s fund raiser you’d have to shave your head, but that’s another story.
Again, well done.
March 17th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Looks great, how does it feel?
March 18th, 2007 at 12:44 am
You really do look younger. BTW, congrats on the fundraising.
March 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Oh. My. God.
You look a bit shellshocked
March 18th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Mmm. A passing resemblance to the late Tony Hancock, methinks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/h/gallery/hancock_7772990_2.shtml&h=300&w=400&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Yf5MidGrhqN5fM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtony%2Bhancock%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
March 18th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Even more beautiful than I ever imagined…
March 18th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Congratulations! on the fundraising and the chin!
March 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Wow! How does it feel?
March 18th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I see that the beard had become more ‘distinguished’ than in your banner. The goatee looks very cosmopolitan and the clean shave looks… well, like an economist! Good choice to have!
March 18th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!! You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
March 19th, 2007 at 3:56 am
How is your wife taking to the new look? Are you sleeping out on the porch?
March 19th, 2007 at 5:18 am
Speechless……
March 19th, 2007 at 8:11 am
don’t worry about the jowl-ly look John, it will soon disappear with a lot of sensational hand massaging…as in the senses that is. In that vein, stay away from the mirror for a bit.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:01 am
What Megan and Tim said - you look 10 years younger!
Are you going to flog the offcuts on eBay?
March 19th, 2007 at 9:43 am
I don’t see a downside…Well Done!!!
PS.
Anyone else detect a passing resemblence in our hirsute host to the original BlindFreddy?
“..Sir Frederick William Pottinger, (was) officer in charge of the Lachlan district during the reign of the bushranger Ben Hall. The convict’s success in eluding capture scored Pottinger the nickname “Blind Freddy” among his peers and journalists of the day.”
Images at:
http://www.gold-net.com.au/archivemagazines/jun20/pottinger.html
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050500b.htm
March 19th, 2007 at 11:18 am
There goes the beard.
Such is life…
March 19th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
good on ya! and your boy looks quite cute too.
If only i was 20 years younger…..
March 19th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
You look older, or at least more boring.
Well done on the sacrifice for charity. Now skip your 4pm shave and put it back.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
[...] Quiggan and Polly are looking cute [...]
March 20th, 2007 at 10:47 am
re your flickr fots….who’d have thought there were two such spunks hiding under all that fur?! fantastic job of fundraising, John.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
[...] are sponsored for doing it. The money goes to the Leukaemia Foundation. Many of you remember when John Quiggin shaved off his iconic beard for the cause in a father-and-son shave. (This year, he’s coloured his hair [...]